The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has lifted the ban denying sexually active gays and lesbians the right to serve as ministers!!!

Bravo!!!!

The ban had previously prohibited members of the gay and lesbian community who were not celibate from becoming ministers for the church, but now gays and lesbians in "committed relationships" may be hired by ELCA congregations as ministers!

An impressive 68% of the 1,000 members of ECLA's national assembly agreed to lift the ban in a vote taken on Friday.

Although many members of the clergy are troubled by the ECLA's decision, the fight for equal rights in the clergy overruled the naysayers' beliefs.

Said Rev. Leslie Williamson of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Des Plains, Ill: ”I have seen these same-gender relationships function in the same way as heterosexual relationships — bringing joy and blessings as well as trials and hardships. 'The same-gender couples I know live in love and faithfulness and are called to proclaim the word of God as are all of us.”

233 comments to “The Lutheran Church Allows Gays To Serve As Ministers!”

Re: kissmyassobama – Ooooo, let's hear ONE MORE TIME for the cheap seats! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the good laugh asshole! All "religions" are nothing more than a load of bullshit made up to control the weak minded. OH! And guess what? YOU proved the point! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So many fools, so little time!

Re: Aussieone – OMG shut the fuck up already you atheist scumbag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sexual perversion is sick disgusting and an obination to GOD!!! STF UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP! Dont you have some atheist rant to give on an atheist hell bound site????????

Re: Mickey9661 – so let me get this straight(pardon the pun) you dont decide who you screw?? thats such a load of crap!! Of COURSE you decide. You dont HAVE to lay with the same sex..but do! ITS YOUR CHOICE!

The complete passage describes how a group of Christians left the church, converted to Paganism, and engaged in orgiastic, presumably heterosexual sexual activities. This type of behavior was common among Pagan fertility religions in Rome during Paul's time. Paul writes that, later, God "gave them over" to something new: homosexual behavior. This implies that they had a heterosexual orientation and had engaged only in heterosexual sex throughout their lifetime. God influenced them in some way to engage in homosexual orgies. This was, for them, an unnatural, and thus sinful, activity.
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Paul criticized them because they were engaged in sexual activity which was unnatural for them. For a person with a heterosexual orientation, homosexual behavior is "shameful," "unnatural," "indecent," and a "perversion." The passage in Romans is not a condemnation of homosexual behavior. Rather, it disapproves of sexual behavior that is against a person's basic nature (i.e. homosexual behaviors by people whose orientation is heterosexual).
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For the vast majority of adults, those who are heterosexual, it is indecent for them to engage in homosexual activities. One can interpret Paul's writing as stating that, for the small minority of humans who are homosexual, it would be indecent for them to engage in heterosexual activities.
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Romans 1:26-27 make no statement regarding those who are BiSexual.

So you like H8erboi's posts ?
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So are you a member of the KKK as he has already admited ??
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Is that why you hate Obama ?
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Do you plan to burn crosses outside ECLA ?
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I guess you better hope Im right and there is no Heven and Hell because your not very Christian are you ? lol
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I and the other are not looking for a god save our souls. I dont believe in your god or your statan nor the easter bunny or santa.
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PS Just so we are clear I think every adult should love & fuck who they want as long as that adult wants to love & fuck them.. I dont believe in your book!

Re: kissmyassobama –
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So you like H8erboi's posts ?
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So are you a member of the KKK too as he has already admited ??
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Is that why you hate Obama ?
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Do you plan to burn crosses outside ECLA ?
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I guess you better hope Im right and there is no Heven and Hell because your not very Christian are you ? lol
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I and the other are not looking for a god save our souls. I dont believe in your god or your statan nor the easter bunny or santa.
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PS Just so we are clear I think every adult should love & fuck who they want as long as that adult wants to love & fuck them.. I dont believe in your book!

Re: kissmyassobama – you shut the fuck up! you are a disgusting little bitch! now fuck off loser no one cares about your opinion! you don't choose your fucking orientation! god isn't real and if he is you are going to hell with all the rest of us you little prick!

Re: kissmyassobama – hi you little bitch, the bible is not god words. Neither god nor Jesus wrote the bible himself.. MAN wrote the bible
MANY MANY years after the death of Jesus. If this "holy book" is so great, why did it take many many years to be written by man, and the stories in it chosen by man and has been translated chosen by man and passed down and changed by man many many times.
NO ONE should trust this book that was written by man…

Re: ERRRBOOO –
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No where have I argued that men who sleep with boy are not pedophiles..
I have only pointed out that "73% of pedophiles are straight"
after Angleeyes made the point to KDIZZLL that "pedophile does not equal gay"
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Im not sure if you have reading difficulties or made an honest mistake ??
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While im sure you must have thought it ment dirty or perverted a reprobate mind is in fact a mind with out god.. Given that Ive already told you I dont believe in god… Kind of pointless statement dont you think ? Its not a real world word its much like Ewok language from the also fictional universe of Star Wars Its has no meaning to my life.
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Nothing pervese about anything I wrote regarding my belief that the bible contains three same sex relationships. Those of Ruth and Naomi,
David and Jonathan, & Daniel and Ashpenaz.
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I have provided my reasoning along with those statments.
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So again its not pervese its just an understanding of the language and basic reasoning and logic but given your belief I guess that may well infact be way beyond your ability!